According to NPR: Oppressing Muslim Women Improves their Body Image By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/npr-oppressing-muslim-women-improves-their-body-image/print/
Also stoning to death is the ultimate weight loss program. Truly Mohammed was the original feminist. Just ask the little girl he raped.
So the team surveyed nearly 600 Muslim women in Britain. About 200 said they never used the hijab. The others said they wore it at least sometimes. Swami and his colleagues also asked the women a whole slew of questions to measure how they felt about their bodies.
The difference between the two groups was small. But across all parameters, the women who wore the hijab, at least some of the time, had more positive views of their bodies on average. They had less desire to be thin.
There’s a rather obvious reason for that. The Muslims who didn’t wear the Hijab were probably more Westernized. The ones who did had standards of beauty rooted in a culture that celebrates morbid obesity.
Take Mauritania, a Muslim country in Africa.
In Mauritania, a West African country situated in between Western Sahara and Senegal, thin isn’t considered beautiful. Skinny women are viewed as poor and not able to afford food.
For women to find husbands in Mauritania, they have to be fat. So they force-feed themselves large quantities of camel milk, bread crumbs soaked in olive oil, and goat meat. This practice is referred to as “gavage” — the same name used to describe the force-feeding of ducks to make foie gras.
As a result, mothers begin force-feeding their daughters at a young age to ensure that when they’re old enough to marry, they are attractive under Mauritanian standards.
There’s nothing particularly Islamic about this except insofar as Islam reinforces the idea that women are property.
Here’s the situation for Pakistani Muslim settlers in Europe.
Overweight has traditionally been associated with being in good health and of high status, and the body ideal has been large. Pakistani women in Norway have a high prevalence of obesity and diabetes.
I could go on, but you get the point.
Every culture has its own standards of beauty. And that includes cultures that require women to be virtually physically invisible. NPR is selling liberal listeners a scam that appeals to their ideas about foreign cultures being free of Western problems.
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